Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that China’s new stealth fighter might have copied some of its technology from the F-117.
Chinese agents were active in Serbia when a F-117 was shot down there in 1999.
“At the time, our intelligence reports told of Chinese agents crisscrossing the region where the F-117 disintegrated, buying up parts of the plane from local farmers,” says Adm. Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia’s military chief of staff during the Kosovo war.